Car-coupling



(No Model.)

J. H. WILLIAMS.

GAR COUPLING.

No. 436,683. Patented Sept. 16, 1896)..

wifgcsses [1334113161 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HENRY WILLIAMS, OF NEW LEWISVILLE, ARKANSAS.

CAR-COUPLING.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 436,683, datedSeptember 16, 1890.

Application filed July 2,1890. Serial No. 357,531. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN HENRY \VILL- IAMs, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at New Lewisville, in the county of Lafayette and Stateof Arkansas, have invented a new and useful (Jar-Coupling, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to carcouplings, more particularly to thoseclasses known as pinand-link lifters, and the object thereof is toprovide improvements upon devices of this character heretofore existing.

To this end the invention consists of the details of constructionhereinafter more fully described, and illustrated in the drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is an end view of a careinbodying my improvements withthe parts in their normal position. Fig. 2 is a side view of thedraw-head and attachments. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same.

Referring to the said drawings, the letter O designates the car-body,and D is an ordinary draw-head mounted beneath the same in the usual orin any preferred manner. To each side of the support for this draw-headis connected a bracket A, having eyes in its front and rear ends, andthrough each of the eyes slides a rod B, which is bent upwardly forwardof the front eye, as shown. The two rods 13 are connected at their upperends, and also, if desired, at their elbows by horizontal tie-rods Z,which have eyes at their ends embracing said rods 13, and through theseeyes pass set-screws b, whose points bear against the rods B. A skeletonframe is thus formed which slides forward and back in the brackets A,and can accommodate itself to the longitudinal movements of thedraw-head as permitted by its buffer-springs and as occasioned by thestarting and stopping of the car.

The letter E design ates a cross-bar having forwardly-bent ends 6, andthe vertical rods B Yis the coupling-pin, which passes verticallythrough a hole in the draw-head in the usual manner, and X is a splitpin, which passes forwardly through the coupling-pin and through the lugR, as shown. A horizontal frame is thus formed, which may slidevertically upon the skeleton frame and which may move laterally withrespect to the car, and the coupling-pin may therefore have a verticaland lateral movement whereby it can accommodate itself to the movementsof the draw-head, or whereby the coupling-pin. may be lifted todisengage the link WV.

Rising from the center of the cross-bar E is a wing V, having a numberof holes in its upper end, and engaged with one of these holes is a hookU, having a split upper end.

H is a rod journaled in bearings h on the end of the car and havingcranked extremities P, and Gis a rigid crank at the center of this rod,whose outer end is pivoted on a pin g in the upper end of the hook U.

N is a vertical rod extending through a staple 11 near the top of thecar and having a handle at its upper end, and the lower end of this rodis pivoted on the pin g within the upper split end of the hook U. Bythismeans, when one of the cranks P is turned or when the rod N is operated,the coupling-pinJY will be raised and lowered in a manner which will bereadily understood, and the coupling may therefore be operated fromeither side or from the top of the car.

J is a rod mountedin bearings j on the end of the car and having crankedends Q, and K are rigid cranks depending from said rod at either side ofthe draw-head and having slots 7c in their bodies. L are extension-barsconnected by bolts Z with said slots 7t, and O are links connecting thelower ends or feet of said extension-bars with a link-lifter bar M,which extends transversely across the car below the body of the same,and has turned-up ends m, forming handles, whereby it may be movedlongitudinally of its length. By this means when the cranks Q are turnedthe lifter-bar M will be elevated and the link W will be raised, as willbe obvious, and when the litter'bar M is moved longitudinally by itshandles m the link may be moved from side to side to guide it into themouth of the draw-head of an approaching can In this manner the link canbe lifted and controlled from either side of the car.

With the above construction of parts the skeleton frame-work may moveforward and back, and the horizontal frame-work may move up and down,and from side to side, and as the pin is carried by these frameworks andpasses through the draw-head it is never released from the frame-worksWhile the draw-head moves as is necessary. The pin can at all times beraised as above described, but the pin-lifting mechanism does notdisengage the pin from the draw-head. The link-lifter can also be liftedas above described. This improved mechanism for raising the pin and linkcan be attached to the ordinary coupling now in use by simply drilling ahole through the pin, whereby a split pin X can be inserted therethroughto connect the coupling-pin with the lug R, and the balance of the partsare only attached to the parts of the car or to the ordinarycar-coupling.

What I claim is 1. In a car-coupling, the combination, with thedraw-head D, the coupling-pin Y, the lateral bar I, having the lug R,and the split pin X, detachably connecting said lug and coupling-pin, ofthe cross-bar E, having forwardlybent ends 6, provided with holes,through which said lateral bar moves loosely, and means for raising andlowering said cross-bar, substantially as described.

2. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-head D, thecoupling-pin Y, the rectangular lateral bar I, having the depending lugR, and the pin X, detachably connecting said lug and coupling-pin, ofthe crossbar E, having forwardly-bent ends 6, provided with holes,through which said lateral bar moves loosely, a longitudinally-movingskeleton frame, substantially as described, upon which said cross-bar isguided vertically, and means for raising and lowering the cross-bar onsaid frame, as set forth.

3. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the brackets A, secured tothe sides of the draw-head support and having eyes at their front andrear ends, the L-shaped rods B, whose lower members slide longitudinallyin said brackets and whose upper members are connected by horizontaltie-rods Z at their upper ends and at their bends, of a horizontalframe, substantially as described, guided upon the upper members of saidrods, a coupling-pin Y, connected thereto and passing through thedraw-head D, and means for raising and lowering said frame, as setforth.

4. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the brackets A, secured tothe sides of the draw-head support and having eyes at their front andrear ends, the L-shaped rods B, one of whose membersslideslongitudinallyin said eyes and the other of whose members standsvertically in front thereof, horizontal tierods Z at the upper ends andat the bends of said rods, said tie-rods having eyes embracing saidrods, and set-screws b in said eyes, of a horizontal frame,substantially as described, guided upon said rods B, between thetie-rods, a coupling-pin Y, connected thereto and passing through thedraw-head D, and means for raising and lowering said pin, as set forth.

5. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-head and thecoupling-pin moving vertically therethrough, of a skeleton frame guidedlongitudinally in eyes on the drawhead support, a horizontal frame-workguided vertically on the skeleton frame, a laterallymoving bar thereinto which said couplingpin is connected, and means for raising andlowering said frame, each and all substantially as described.

6. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-head D, thecouplingpin Y, the brackets A, secured to the sides of the drawheadsupport, the L-shaped rods B, sliding longitudinally of the car in saidbrackets, and the tie-rods Z, connecting said rods at their upper endsand at their bends, of the crossbar E, having forwardly-bent ends 6,provided with rectangular holes, said cross-bar being mounted at itsbends upon said rods B between said tie-rods, a bar 1, moving laterallythrough said rectangular holes and connected with said coupling-pin, awing V, rising from the center of said cross-bar E and having a numberof holes, and pin-lifting devices, substantially as described, leadingfrom said.

holes, as and for the purpose set forth.

'7. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-head, thecoupling-pin, the wing connected with said pin,and thehook engagingsaid. wing and having a split upper end, of a rod journaled across thecar-body and having cranks at its end, a rigid crank at its center,whose outer end is connected by a pivot-pin g with the split end of saidhook, and a vertically-moving rod N, leading to the top of the car andpivoted at its lower end on said pin, substantially as described.

8. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-head, thecoupling-pin, and means for operating it, of the transverse shaft J,journaled in bearings on the end of the car and having handles Q at itsends, the rigid cranks K on said shaft having slots in their bodies, theextension-bars L, the bolts Z, passin g through said bars and engagingsaid slots, the link-lifter bar M, extending transversely beneath thecar and having turned-up ends m, and the links 0, connecting thelifter-bar with said extension-bars, substantially as and for thepurpose hereinbefore described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN HENRY WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

ALBERT LESTER, MONT HURsT.

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